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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Hains

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A carpenter's son, the youngest of as many as 18 children, in 1860 he was a 21 year old boatman living with his parents and 4 siblings in Hamburg, Berks County, PA. He enlisted and mustered there on 3 October 1861 as a Private in Company G, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File,2 both as Thomas Haines. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1839; Hamburg, PA

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15374]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 30974]

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